Six unidentified people approached a 31-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman inside 1440 Sheridan Boulevard around 5:20 a.m. on September 17, and before the group fled, one of them pulled out a gun and struck the man once in the face, according to police. The attackers made off with roughly $8,000 in cash, a cellphone, passports, and jewelry, leaving investigators searching for six suspects and a motive months later.
According to NYPD Crime Stoppers
, the group surrounded the two victims inside the Sheridan Boulevard address, and one member displayed the firearm before striking the male victim in the face. The attackers then removed the victims’ belongings and fled to parts unknown, the post says. NYPD Crime Stoppers is now offering a reward of up to $3,500 for information that leads to an arrest and indictment in the case.
Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or the Spanish-language line at 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by direct message to the department’s X account, @nypdtips. NYPD Crime Stoppers, based in New York, is appealing for the public’s help since no arrests have been announced in connection with the case.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Early-Morning Robberies
The September 17 robbery adds to a string of violent robbery cases that have rattled parts of the Bronx this year. As reported by PIX11, police counted eight such incidents between September 5 and 9 alone, with victims typically targeted at gunpoint on the street in the early morning hours.
Among the cases PIX11 detailed, a Starlight Park robbery saw two people display a knife and a gun, forcibly take a 22-year-old man's cellphone and wallet, and strike him in the face with the firearm. In a separate Faile Street incident, the station reported that two people pointed a firearm at a 45-year-old man and took his wallet along with about $1,000 in cash.
Earlier Incident Involved a Teenage Victim
A separate case documented by Shore News Network describes an attempted robbery near Mount Eden Parkway and Sheridan Avenue on March 24, when four unidentified individuals approached a 15-year-old boy around 5:41 p.m. One of the individuals displayed a knife while another made verbal threats, but the suspects ultimately fled on foot without taking any property, and the outlet reported that no arrests had been made at the time of publication. That incident was reported as occurring within the NYPD’s 44th Precinct — a different command than the area tied to the Sheridan Boulevard robbery, and nothing in the available reporting connects the two cases.
The NYPD maintains citywide and precinct-level crime statistics that it says are updated weekly, though the figures provided do not establish a specific trend for the Sheridan Boulevard location or its surrounding precinct. For now, investigators are relying on the public for leads, with the reward and the tip lines standing as the main avenues toward identifying the six people accused in the September 17 attack.
